Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 27, 1951
Age
75
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Michael Franzese
Writing
Biography
Michael Franzese (born May 27, 1951) is an American former New York mobster and caporegime of the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss John Franzese. Franzese was enrolled in a pre-med program at Hofstra University, but dropped out to make money for his family after his father was sentenced to 50 years in prison for bank robbery in 1967. He eventually helped implement a scheme to defraud the federal government out of gasoline taxes in the early 1980s. By the age of 35, in 1986, Fortune Magazine listed Franzese as number 18 on its list of the "Fifty Most Wealthy and Powerful Mafia…
Also known as
Michael Franzese Sr. · Michael Grillo
